Hello, I thought it might be fun to introduce a new game inspired by the Pathe News releases on Utube. I did check for old threads but don’t think there has been a game like this before.

Over 50 years of Who there have been some obvious connections between actors in the show. So this game is simple in that you state an actor who has been in Doctor Who and a real life connection to another actor who has been in Doctor Who.
You DO have to state WHAT the connection is .The more INTERESTING the link the better. The next person follows on with the connection and the next link and so on.

For example Tom Baker is linked to Lalla Ward as he was her husband. Next person Lalla Ward is linked to …. Etc. If you get stuck on a real life connection you can use the fictional world of Who to create a link through his/ her character .

Okay I will start off with a link I discovered the other day

Jean Marsh (Lady Joanna in The Crusade and companion Sara Kingdom) was married from 1955-1960 to Jon Pertwee ( The Third Doctor)

Jon Pertwee was in a film called Will Any Gentleman, with William Hartnell (the first Doctor)

err - not exactly a link but:

Robert Glenister starred in Caves of Androzani, and then much later his brother Philip Glenister went on to star with John Simm in Life on Mars. John Simm naturally went on to play, hmm now what was that characters name in Doctor Who ... ?

The Master, who first appeared alongside Pertwee. Connection made

Whilst Hartnell was in the very first Carry On Film, Carry On Sergeant, Pertwee was in the last, Carry On Columbus.

William Hartnells doctor met the Celestial Toymaker played by Michael Gough

Michael Gough was in the film Konga, along with Leonard Sachs who played Borusa in Arc of Infinity.

Michael Gough was also married to Anneke Wills(Polly)

Anneke Wills starred in the series Strange Report, which also featured Charles Lloyd-Pack, whose son Roger was in Rise of the Cybermen.

Yep, and off course, Roger Lloyd Pack starred in Only Fools and Horses with John Challis, who played Scorby in The Seeds Of Doom.

John Challis was in the OFAH spin-off The Green Green Grass, which also featured Let's Kill Hitler's Ella Kenion.

And Ella Kenion sat on the adjacent desk to Catherine Tate in the Kate & Ellen sketches...

Catherine Tate was in The Catherine Tate Show, in the Paul and Sam sketches with The Curse of the Black Spot's Lee Ross.

Colin Salmon - Dr Moon - Silence In The Library / Forest Of The Dead
Geoffery Palmer - ???? - Voyage Of The Damned
Hugh Bonneville - Captain Avery - Curse Of The Black Spot

and the guy who played Mordred in Battlefield


All in the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (watched it the other day)

Lee Ross was in Press Gang also with Lucy Benjamin who played a young Nyssa in Mawdryn Undead

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned Georgia Moffat - daughter of Peter Davison, daughter of The Doctor - and married to David Tennant? (Does that count?)

Hello Face. Of.Jack a good connection for sure. I was hoping that posters would add a link to the last post made to make the game like a join the dots but maybe I didn't make it clear in my OP oh dear :$

I'm not sure how to amend the first post so simply the game is to t follow on with a new connection to the last post made. Apologies for any confusion everyone.

After being the Doctor, Five was in a series called "A Very Peculiar Practice".

Among his co-stars was David, son of ......

Patrick Troughton who was in the film Jason and the Argonauts alongside Honour Blackman who was Professor Lasky in Terror of the Vervoids

Lucy Benjamin was in EastEnders, as was Jo Joyner, who was in the 2005 two-parter, Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways.

Honour Blackman was in the 1990s ITV comedy The Upper Hand, which also featured Joe McGann, who is the brother of 8th Doctor Paul McGann.

Paul McGann off course starred alongside Daphne Ashbrooke in the TV Movie. Daphne Ashbrooke once appeared in The A-Team but she wasn't the only person to feature in both that and Doctor Who. Another episode featured Christopher Neame, who played Skagra in the uncompleted Shada.

Another actor from the Shada was Denis Carey, who also appeared in the Blakes 7 epsiode Gambit, which was written by Doctor Who's Robert Holmes.

"Gambit" was, of course, the name of a character in The New Avengers played by Gareth Hunt, who played Arak in Planet of the Spiders.

The New Avengers also starred Joanna Lumley who to date is our only 'Unofficial' Female Doctor in The Curse Of The Fatal Death.

The Curse of the Fatal Death featured the Supreme Dalek prop from Remembrance of the Daleks, (painted grey/ black for the skit, but still with the orange head lights), which was the last story to feature John Scott Martin, the oldest and longest serving Dalek operator.